BESEECH (besought)

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Irregular inflected form: besought   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does beseech mean? 

• BESEECH (verb)
  The verb BESEECH has 1 sense:

1. ask for or request earnestly

  Familiarity information: BESEECH used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BESEECH (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they beseech    ... he / she / it beseeches   
Past simple: beseeched    / besought   
Past participle: beseeched    / besought   
-ing form: beseeching   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Ask for or request earnestly

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

adjure; beseech; bid; conjure; entreat; press

Context example:

The prophet bid all people to become good persons

Hypernyms (to "beseech" is one way to...):

plead (appeal or request earnestly)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE

 Context examples 

I besought her to look up.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

His voice broke a little, and he went on with a voice full of pity:—But, I beseech you, do not go forth in anger with me.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The wretched young man arose, and with a last beseeching glance at us walked from the room.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He besought me, therefore, to leave my solitary isle and to meet him at Perth, that we might proceed southwards together.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Then he offered the dwarfs money, and prayed and besought them to let him take her away; but they said, “We will not part with her for all the gold in the world.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

His tone was properly beseeching, but stealing a shy look at him, Meg saw that his eyes were merry as well as tender, and that he wore the satisfied smile of one who had no doubt of his success.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The nonsense and folly of people's stepping out of their rank and trying to appear above themselves, makes me think it right to give you a hint, Fanny, now that you are going into company without any of us; and I do beseech and entreat you not to be putting yourself forward, and talking and giving your opinion as if you were one of your cousins—as if you were dear Mrs. Rushworth or Julia.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

If it could not be done with Mr. Mills's sanction and concurrence, I besought a clandestine interview in the back kitchen where the Mangle was.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A long while after, he went to walk one day in the wood, and the old fox met him, and besought him with tears in his eyes to kill him, and cut off his head and feet.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Your hand, Miss March! was the only answer her mute appeal received, and too proud to cry or beseech, Amy set her teeth, threw back her head defiantly, and bore without flinching several tingling blows on her little palm.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)